Serial Hybrids

[NeilBlanchard]

They're coming!

Green Car Congress: FEV LiiON Vehicle With Wankel Range Extender at the Vienna Motor Symposium

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010...-20100223.html

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010...-20100224.html

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009...-20090514.html

[NeilBlanchard]

Suzuki will begin testing 61 mpg-Swift plug-in hybrid in Japan this fall — Autoblog Green

[cfg83]

Neil -

Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

They're coming!

Green Car Congress: FEV LiiON Vehicle With Wankel Range Extender at the Vienna Motor Symposium

I like the graphic from the FEV LiiON :



It's complicated, but I think it's a neat way to compare trade-offs.

CarloSW2

[NeilBlanchard]

I think NVH = noise/vibration/harshness?

They are showing the fuel efficiency as the weakest point of using the Wankel -- that is too bad then, because that is the main reason to *do* this?

[dcb]

re: graphic, it is interesting that they score the 1cyl REM and the 2 cyl REM identically in the fuel efficiency and Raw emissions department. I was sorta of the impression that less cylinders was in the direction of more efficiency, right or wrong.